Robert Becker

Nov 20, 2024 | artforum.com | Robert Becker

Danny Moynihan’s epic paintings are amalgamations of landscape and figuration; they obscure a line invented in the nineteenth century to separate humanity from its place in the natural world. In The Hunt 2023–24, torso-like forms recline beneath the ominous weight of towering cliffs. Between them is an explosion of exquisitely impastoed blood, bone, teeth, and horns. Of course, this is just my reading; nothing is literal in any of Moynihan’s new works.

Sep 19, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Robert Becker

Lahaina, which means “cruel sun” in the Hawai’ian language, was the sacred home of the goddess Kihawahine for 400 years and the capital of the Hawai’ian kingdom in the early and mid-19th century. At once a seaport where the New England whaling fleet spent winters, and the reckoning site between the American colonial and Native Hawai’ian civilizations, Lahaina later became a sugar mill town and finally a tourist attraction.

Jul 25, 2023 | artforum.com | Robert Becker

New York NINO MIER GALLERY NEW YORK SoHo 62 Crosby St June 23–August 5, 2023 NINO MIER GALLERY NEW YORK TriBeCA 380 Broadway June 23–August 5, 2023 Matthew Hansel packed more than a picnic for his trip to the seashore.

Apr 13, 2022 | artforum.com | Robert Becker

Jan 16, 2022 | galveston.com | Robert Becker